Greville Tombs

a woman in a black dress is holding an umbrella and a purse . ALT: a woman in a black dress is holding an umbrella and a purse .

Listened to the new Florence and the Machine album. Read a letter written by Mary Shelly to Lord Byron. Watched the new Frankenstein film.

The monster looking less excited than I am about getting his photo taken with me.

Mary Shelly’s letter to Sir Walter Scott with transcript.

It’s new Frankenstein movie day! @natlibscot.bsky.social have brought out their very special treasures for the occasion 🫀

I always find it odd that for all the cacophony of fireworks popping off through the weeks around 5th November, I never EVER hear the sound of anyone enjoying themselves.

No cheers, no happy screams.

As I calm my unsettled dogs I am picturing people watching silently, unsmiling, wondering WHY.

A blast of saxophone in the taillights.

Sadly the evidence points to this. There will be a generation saying in the future how we know it could be different: we saw it once.

Yes! This! It accelerated so much of what we were told was infeasible. And it worked! I’m convinced it’s because the mangers realised their job is them looking like they are working in front of people.

Such sumptuous camera focus for an art critic and detective in a leather jacket.

It’s waxy art.

The film in tertiary palettes: all browns, rusts, blacks and golds. Layered in orchestral emotions and baroque drama. Textiles of lipstick oil, nylon smoke, and cotton shirts. Heightened concepts to exert pressure with sweat stuck obsessions. - (notes on) an early 90s erotic thriller.

This is such terribly sad news. I loved seeing new photos of Mouse, and Katy’s kindness here. She will be dearly missed by me.

Page 1 of a letter of Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of ‘Frankenstein’, 14 June 1818 (MS.3889 f. 118)

Page 2 of a letter of Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of ‘Frankenstein’, 14 June 1818 (MS.3889 f. 118)

Did you know Mary Shelley once had to correct Sir Walter Scott for crediting her novel, Frankenstein, to her husband? 🔍

For one day only, see this story on paper at the National Library:
➡️ Mary Shelley's letter to Sir Walter Scott
➡️ Rare early editions & items from our archives
➡️ and more!

Hey! Was so busy with Halloween I took a wee semi break from the socials. I’ve been good, though 🙂 I’m always so pleased to see enjoy your creative processes.

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a fantasy library scene. A woman with auburn hair sleeps on a sofa surrounded by old books. A goblin sleeps next to her, and another goblin climbs down from a bookcase behind them. A faint shadow of a figure falls over her.

Illustration of a winged male vampire embracing a human woman in a room with an arched doorway

illustration of a woman straddling a demon in front of a fireplace

Prints are available at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social 🦇

gallerynucleus.com/artists/abigail_larson?category=prints

I never knew this! 😯

A skeleton split down the middle and pictured from the mid torso upwards. Against a white background

A bisected skeleton in the University of Siena. This is very useful to help understand some anatomical features - here you can see clearly see the arterial grooves for the middle meningeal artery insid the skull. These grooves come from pulsation of the blood putting pressure on the bone

1640.

#illustration #1600s #woodcut

Lovely!

It’s still Halloween, right? Right.

When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean

@jeanielaub.bsky.social feel free to post on your mask social site if you’d like 😊

An unidentified model by Charles Gates Sheldon for Fox Shoes, c 1920.

Happy Hallowe’en my friends.

The pack’s ready for a howling good Halloween! 🎃🐺

I mean, hands are hot, so.

Love that gigs and #gigface are back! Feels like old times.

“She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.”
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter

Boop incoming in 3...2...1
#MexicanGrayWolf

Edmund Teske

Victorian drawing of a blindfolded man with long black hair and a tight suit with red boots prancing around a stage littered by eggs.

Baron Nathan, the celebrity dance teacher of the 1850s who danced the hornpipe blindfolded, surrounded by eggs. There's something SO malevolent about this image. It's powerfully frightening.

I am literally begging you to read the very short book. that's what the book is about. that's literally what the book is about. Mary Shelley's Frabkenstein is the first book about not building the torment nexus. you're as bad as the fucking Sun. it's a short book you're supposed to be fucking journ–